Remusatia hookeriana Schott

Herbs, cormous. Tuber dark outside, white inside, depressed globose, 0.5–3 × 0.5–3cm; new roots and buds appearing at apex in Apr–May; stolons much branched, spreading, pendulous, sometimes simple and creeping; bulbils numerous, smaller. Cataphylls white, lanceolate, ca. 9cm, membranous, convolute around both leaf and flower buds. Leaves 2, appearing in Jun (after anthesis), spreading one after another; petiole tinged reddish, with darker markings, up to 45cm × ca. 8mm; leaf blade becoming purple abaxially, green adaxially, ovate-lanceolate, first leaf up to 30 × 13cm, membranous, peltate and cordate at base, long acuminate at apex; second leaf appearing from sheath in proximal part of petiole of first leaf, petiole 10–20cm, leaf blade smaller, ca. 14 × 4.5cm. Flowering before leaves develop. Peduncle greenish, 4–13 cm × 1.5–3.5mm. Spathe 3–7cm; tube convolute, green outside, dark purple inside, ovoid, 1.3–2.7cm × 5–10mm; limb deciduous, semispreading to erect, entirely yellow-green, ovate, 2–4.5 × ca. 3.3cm, apex acute. Spadix sessile, yellow-green, shorter than spathe; female zone yellow-green, ca. 11 × 4mm; female flowers partly 4-loculed; ovary ovoid, ca. 1.1mm in diam.; stigma sessile, disciform; placentae parietal; ovules many, orthotropous; sterile zone attenuate, yellow, ca. 7 × 2mm; sterile male flowers rhombic or elliptic, apex truncate; male zone capitate, ellipsoidal, to 9 × 5 mm, apex obtuse; male flowers clavate or cuneate, apex truncate, with fleshy connective, with 4–6 oblong thecae opening by a terminal pore. 2n = 28, 42.